Even when the thing is being compared to what essentially amounts to a metaphor itself. “It was like any moment you expected some Victorians to wander in with their cups of tea.” SwitzerlandishĪ simile is one of the most efficient ways to convey imagery. At one point his description moves into the sphere of metaphor and ironically, perhaps, the image of the garden will become even clearer to some readers: The more of the drug that gets into his system, the sharper the focus of the image. Victorian GardenĪ prison experiment involving drugs causes a prisoner to have deeply realistic hallucinations of a garden. Then one day the mother and father return home to a son who has removed his socks and “find him Tarzaning around.” There is metaphor here in the image of the character acting like the nearly-naked king of the jungle in his rapturous anti-social behavior in defiance of authority. In the story “Victory Lap” the narrator describes a house in which one of the rules forbade walking around in bare feet. It actually arose as an alternative to the somewhat older implication an unreliable person is a “bad egg.” Tarzaning The phrase that someone “was a good egg” means someone who is trustworthy and reliable. This particular metaphor will be instantly familiar to older readers, but perhaps bewildering to younger ones. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community.
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